We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.
There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.